I'm trying to create a shopping cart. I created a context and passed the state as value when pressing the increment and decrement buttons on the cart, my item count is changing but when I use the same context in the navigation bar component, in the cart The total number of items will not change. I am attaching the code snippet below
This is where I create the context
const initialState:initialType = { cartItems:cartItems, totalItems:cartItems.reduce((accumulator, object) => { return accumulator + object.quantity }, 0), totalAmount:0 } export const CartContext = createContext(initialState);
Below is my useContext provider.
The value of the status comes from useReducer, it is updating everything is fine
This is how I use useContext Hook in the navigation bar to get the total number of items in the shopping cart
const cartItems = useContext(CartContext); return ({cartItems.totalItems}` )
But whenever the status changes, the navigation bar does not re-render the updated total number of items in the cart, please help me.
This is my useReducer function and everything it updates. I've checked its functionality by executing console.log(). Everything it returns is fine, including state.totalItems.
type actionType={ type:string, payload:string } export const reducer = (state:initialType ,action:actionType) => { if(action.type === "Delete" ){ return { ...state, cartItems:state.cartItems.filter((currentElement)=>{ return currentElement.id != action.payload }) } } if (action.type === 'increment'){ state.cartItems.forEach((element)=>{ if (element.id === action.payload){ element.quantity++; state.totalItems++ } }) return {...state}; } if (action.type === 'decrement'){ state.cartItems.forEach((element)=>{ if (element.id === action.payload){ element.quantity--; state.totalItems--; } }) console.log(state) return {...state}; } return {...state}; }```
When you use
useReducer
it returns the current state, right? As far as you are concerned, the state is an object. Therefore, you can gettotalItems
directly from that state object. For example:So this way,
totalItems
is pulled directly from the state object and you can use it wherever you need it.